Guidance questionnaire rating

What do you think the typical rating for a murder mystery film would be?

a.)  U

b.)  PG

c.)   12

d.)  12A

e.)  15

f.)    18

Tally chart results

We asked 10 sixth formers what they thought and the results showed…

 U :    0

PG:   |

12:    ||||

12A: |

15:    ||||

18:    0

The results showed that most students thought that between the ages of 12 ands 15 was the appropriate age for murder mysteries. When we asked a couple of students why they thought this, they answered that they thought at the age of 12-15 you are old enough to understand the storylines, and also to witness moderate violence and gore.

Props

The cabinet used iin our office scecne.
 This is the trilby that the murderer and the detective wears.
 This is the gun that the murderer used at the opening scene. It is also in the file with the murder case.
 This bath will be used at the beginning of the opening scene where the victim will be lying in it dead.

Initial ideas for characters

Initial ideas for characters

These are ideas of suspects that we may use in the film. Each character will play a small part. Each characters may change throughout the progress of our opening film. At the moment these are the characters we will use to start our opening scene.

Location ideas

We have been researching ideal locations for our film opening, we have looked around several places such as cheney school buildings, we feel that this location creates the right atmosphere for our film. There are some useful places around the school that fits in with our ideas. For example the school corridors are long and have the effect of a hotel corridor, which is the kind of location we are looking for. Also we found a ict classroom suitable for our office scene.  These locations are not definate, just ideas for our research into locations.

Script draft 1...

Scene one: (screaming, killer trying to drown thw women in bath, killer silent, splashing)

Scene two: (black, gun shot, silence)

Scene three: (dead woman in the bath, silence apart from water dripping from tap)

Scene four: (outline of murderer in coridoor, walking away holding the gun, sound of footsteps)

Scene five: (panning shot of building looking up. Outside noise such as traffic etc.)

Scene six: (in detectives office, mid-shot starring at him. Only noise is radio, clock ticking?)

Scene seven: (knock at the door, radio still on in background)

Detective: Come in
Secutary Sally: I have the file on the hotel murder
Detective: Thank you Sally, does this have the suspects details in it?
Secutary Sally: It should have everything you need, Detective
Dectective: Thank you very much

(Secutary walks out of the room, closing door behind her)

Scene eight: (detective reads through the files, scatters pictures on the table around him, radio still playing in background.)

Scene nine: (mug shots of each suspect zooming out onto the filming scene)


Credits running through beginning, after shot of killer walking away, down coridoor (don't want to loose any focus by showing credits whilst murder taking place)

An overview of our film

Our film is a murder mystery. In the first 2 minutes, a lady - Emily Saunders* is shot dead and it takes the rest of the film to unfold who is responsible. We start by seeing the mugshots of 5 possible murderer's. We then follow each of them for their proof it was not them who comitted the murder. They all have various connections to her which even if they have a good alibi, makes them suspicious. Unexpected twists occur to mix things up a bit but in the end, we do find out who it was. Characters other than the 5 suspects become involved and maybe the wrong people are being accused...

* - the name may change

Final storyboard